Now to be fair, it doesn’t require three years’ experience cleaning grocery carts, but still!
[sub]Yeah, I am going a bit crazy trying to find a job…[/sub]
Ah yes… the inevitable Catch-22 of the job hunt:
If you don’t have the experience, you can’t work…
BUT…
How can you gain experience if you don’t work?
I sympathize with you entirely, Patrick. That one’s run me into the ground quite a few times.
It’s true it doesn’t say you need three years’ experience cleaning grocery carts, but you never know…
F_X
I find it oddly comforting, as it’s the only job I’ve ever seen advertised that I would actually get hired for.
Considering I’m a newspaper writer and make significantly less than what that position is offering, the comfort is cold indeed.
I understand your frustration, I really do. However, for this job they have a point: They are going to invest in all the training you will need to perform the job (repair as well as cleaning) and they are going to entrust you with one of their vehicles for overnight travel. They would like to know that you have demonstrated the perseverance, honesty, and assorted virtues associated with sticking with one employer for an entire three-year period (the actual meaning of their statement) before they make that investment.
I’m not telling you to “take it in stride,” but I do have some sympathy for the employer.
This is Jeopardy. Please welcome today’s todays contestants. A Lawyer from Detroit, Michigan Bill Young. A grocery cart cleaner, from Falls Clerk, Virginia…
Don’t know why but it amuses me.
Oh, tom, I wasn’t complaining so much as I found it really amusing that their biggest requirement is that you have worked 3 years in the same place (if I had been complaining I’d probably have pitted it). I found that job quite by accident…I’ve actually been looking for data entry jobs (or similar things) for the past few weeks. If only I didn’t detest answering phones…
[sub]Now let’s see how long it takes to get the standard “thank you for sending us your resume. We will let you know” from the jobs I applied for today…[/sub]
The way the economy is these days, good luck trying to find an employer who can keep the same employees around for 3 years without laying them off.
I couldn’t do it:
"This 50-55 hour workweek includes approximately one week each
month requiring overnight travel with the company vehicle. If
you like hard, physical, hands-on labor and like working
outside…this job’s for you! The repairs involve straightening
frames of shopping carts, inspecting and replacing wheels and
brazing, which is a type of welding. "
Brazing? Yuck